Scope and Content Note
This important gift to the Library of Congress of materials relating to the activities of Victor and Carolyn Hammer will preserve a core of fundamental publications, documents, and objects for the study of two important American book artists of the twentieth century. The items donated may be used for the study of the achievements of the two principals, for the study of the craft of printing, for illustrations for works on the graphic arts, for the exploration of ideas found in the correspondence, and for other purposes. The documents relating to the career of Victor Hammer as a painter are especially significant. For variety of interests, originality of concepts, breadth of important personal American and European contacts, and for intrinsic appeal, there can be few archives in the graphic arts field of equal interest. Material donated 1999-2016 by Carolyn Reading Hammer and includes 21 monographs, 50 file boxes, and 4 oversize file boxes.